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The highly popular Drumming for Drinks anything-goes freestyle pipe band percussion competition that has become a key event in Glasgow during the week preceding the World . . .

The Strathclyde Police Pipe Band was saved from the brink of dissolution this week after a meeting on January 19th and another on January 21st with the inspector . . .

In 2009 the Grade 1 Toronto Police Pipe Band made a trip to the Breton Pipe Band Championships and Inter-Celtic Music Festival in Lorient, Brittany, instead of the more . . .

The Music Board of the Pipers & Pipe Band Society of Ontario has a new chairman, with Andrew Hayes taking the post after incumbent chair . . .

Ontario is down to only two confirmed Grade 2 bands after the reported collapse of the Niagara Regional Police Pipe Band following the departure of Pipe-Major . . .

Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University has started a formal search to fill its Director of Piping position, which has been vacant since last fall following the departure of . . .

The Grade 1 Los Angeles Scottish Pipe Band has added to its roster with two front-rank pipers and a mid-section leader, with John Elliott, Alex Gandy and Andrew Elliott . . .

We regret to report the death of Walter Drysdale o …

Timing is everything in piping and drumming, and the Simon Fraser University Pipe Band seemed to time everything just right in 2009, finishing the year with . . .

The old joke that a competition can be part “lottery” is being taken literally by the Niagara-Hamilton branch of the Pipers & Pipe . . .

Greig Sharp, best known as the founder and owner o …

With a total of 12 World Pipe Band Championships between them, a double-bill concert of Simon Fraser University and Field Marshal Montgomery would be considered . . .

In another testimony to how far Highland piping has come, Decker Forrest, originally from San Diego, has been awarded a doctorate for his thesis, “Ce¨°l Beag: The Development . . .

As the St. Laurence O’Toole Pipe Band of Dublin marks a century of musical growth in 2010, the band has aptly named its August 11th Pre-World’s concert in Glasgow . . .

Although he does not describe his new retrospective CD as comprising “hits” from his last three major recording projects, Michael Grey’s new compilation, Unqualified . . .